About Us
Award Winning Custom Home Builder in Durango, CO
Asher Custom Homes is an award-winning design-build firm based in Durango, Colorado, offering timeless residential design and construction throughout Southwest Colorado – including Durango, Pagosa Springs, Telluride, and surrounding areas. Our professional team aspires to be the facilitator of your dreams. We want to create a truly custom home tailored to your lifestyle, capturing your vision with exquisite craftsmanship while keeping your budget in mind. We aim to build a lasting relationship with you as well as an extraordinary home. We commit ourselves to providing you with an inspiring, stress-free process that achieves your goals, honors your schedule and completes your home with attention to every detail. We will be there every step of the way to ensure your project exceeds your dreams and stays on schedule.
Meet our Team
Your custom home begins here in our office, with these friendly faces. Meet the Asher Custom Homes design-build team below, and see the Asher Difference for yourself.
Edward Asher
Owner/President
Edward leads Asher Custom Homes with the experience gained from growing up in a multi-generational family-owned construction business. Edward founded an information technology firm with a global customer base. His extensive management and leadership experience is a valuable asset to Asher Custom Homes. Originally from Kentucky, Edward is an avid pilot, skier, biker, and his love for the mountains is what brought him to Durango.
Jason Wanstrath
Vice President
B.S., Civil Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jason oversees all facets of Asher’s construction operations. A native of Durango, Jason brings to our team over 20 years of experience in construction management. He is a LEED Accredited Professional as well as a former Chapter President of the US Green Building Council. He leads our team of project managers, superintendents, and skilled craftsmen in providing exceptional quality, value, and successful delivery of each and every home we build. In his spare time Jason enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding and skiing, kite surfing, wakeboarding, surfing and forging metal.
Bailey Grinde
Designer
Kansas State University | University of Central Missouri
Bailey has over a decade of design experience and is a licensed realtor. With a Midwest farm-girl work ethic, she strives to bring creativity, passion, and joy to every project when bringing your ideal home to life. She enjoys all things sports, food, history, crafting, and traveling with her husband and two young children.
Don Whitcomb
Senior Site Superintendent
Don has worked in residential construction in Durango beginning in the early 1990s. Since joining Asher Custom Homes in 2007, he has enjoyed and embraced the many opportunities he has had to take on complex and challenging home construction projects, as well as to serve as a mentor to virtually everyone in the company. His love of his work shows in each of his projects, as does his commitment to excellence. In his free time Don enjoys spending time with his grandchildren, boating, tending to his flower garden and riding his Harley.
Craig Strand
Site Superintendent
Craig has over forty years of residential construction experience with extensive training in building in cold climates and with energy efficient home building. When he is not working, he enjoys hiking, back-country and downhill skiing, hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and, most of all, spending time with his six grandchildren.
Fred Turk
Site Superintendent
B.S., Geosciences, Boise State University, Idaho
Fred is a second generation carpenter. He grew up learning the ins and outs of remodeling houses. Throughout earning a bachelor’s degree in Geology and years afterward, Fred ran his own construction business focusing on residential remodels. 25 years later, Fred has developed an in-depth understanding of most trades by putting in the time doing the hands-on work. When not building houses, Fred enjoys the beautiful Colorado outdoors rock hounding, mountain biking, and camping.
David Henritze
Site Supervisor
David has lived in Durango since 1997 and has been building homes since 1998. Prior to joining ACH, David worked for a number of home builders, and owned his own small home building company. David has been involved in the construction of over 100 homes. He especially enjoys getting a home out of the ground and making homes as energy efficient as possible. He and his wife Gina love the lifestyle in Durango and are avid cyclists and skiers.
David Holubetz
Site Superintendent
David grew up working in his family’s building business. He has been building custom homes and light commercial projects in the Telluride area for almost 30 years. Along the way, he has personally undertaken every aspect of the building process, giving him an insider’s view that truly benefits his clients. Today, he continues to take a hands-on approach and emphasizes environmentally friendly building materials and technologies. In his free time, he teaches children about solar power, treehouse construction and how to make organic smoothies and ice cream.
Amy Chavez
Accounting
Amy is fueled by her passion for understanding numbers and is happy to be honing her accounting skills at ACH. She is a perpetual learner who builds on her love for challenges. Amy is proud of her Hispanic heritage and to call herself a true Durango Native. In her free time, Amy loves to spend time on the river and hike the mountains of Durango.
Our History
Asher Custom Homes began as Kogan Builders, Inc. in 1999. Over two decades KBI grew to become the most award winning custom home builder design-build firm in Southwest Colorado. Recognizing the growing potential of building premier homes in this area, Edward Asher purchased Kogan Builders, Inc. in 2019. Edward has drawn upon his extensive engineering background and experience building and growing a company as he has taken on the transition from KBI to Asher Custom Homes. Edward is a hands-on leader who has brought new energy and a family atmosphere to the team and is expanding Asher Custom Homes into new business segments and geographies. Â
Edward values a client-focused company culture, driven by quality and inspired by creativity and passion. He also sees the potential in the quality of life presented by the incredible backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, and all the possibilities that it affords.
Community Involvement
Few things are more important to us as a firm than community involvement. Each year, as a company we contribute to our local community through cash donations, volunteering and participating in local projects and events. Our goal is to support the local charities, organizations and clubs that make Durango and its surrounding communities such a wonderful place to live.
We are particularly proud of our involvement with the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado. As the lead sponsor of the Durango Wine Festival, we support the Foundation’s work helping non-profits in our community to do their great work.